Ronald Karnaugh, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Edison, NJNPI 1194965905
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,493 of the $1,713 with a category attached, or 87.1%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 50.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $828 and has fallen 78.9% since, to $175 in 2025.
Across 46 payments — averaging $37.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$868
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$361
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$94
- Medtronic$77
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$72
- Abbott$37
- plus $205 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$22013%
- Food & beverage$1,49387%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $868 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 15 | $361 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $77 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Abbott | 2 | $37 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $34 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Immedica Pharma US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$1,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 434 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New Jersey.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Edison
- Steven EscaldiEdison$70K
- Christine GreissEdison$28K
- Jenieve GuevarraEdison$8K
- Eric FreemanEdison$3K
- Sagar ParikhEdison$2K
- Yekyung KongWest Orange$61K
- Joseph IbrahimBayonne$50K
- Steven KirshblumWest Orange$47K
- Joseph ValenzaChester$29K
- Bianca MartinezManasquan$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.